{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"61a57ea7931ba4ef3fbb3248","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/61a57ea7931ba4ef3fbb3248","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/61a57ea7931ba4ef3fbb3248","title":"Sr. Openstack Engineer","description":"Title: Sr. OpenStack / Sr. Cloud Platform Engineer Location: Remote – India Type: Full-time Experience- 6+yrsAbout the roleWe’re looking for a senior platform architect to lead the design and delivery of our private-cloud infrastructure on Kubernetes-native OpenStack. You’ll own the architecture for a large, multi-region OpenStack environment — driving its modernization, reliability, and long-term operating model — and act as the senior technical anchor the rest of the platform team builds around.This is a hands-on architecture role for someone who is equally comfortable making control-plane design decisions, writing the plan that sequences a multi-quarter program, and partnering across teams to land it. You turn ambiguous, large-scale infrastructure goals into clear designs with owners, milestones, and measurable outcomes.What you’ll ownCloud architecture for a multi-region OpenStack platform: Nova scheduling and capacity strategy, Neutron networking (OVS/OVN), Cinder/Glance, Keystone identity, and Placement.Platform modernization: designing and sequencing the move to a Kubernetes-native OpenStack model (e.g., OpenStack-Helm / Atmosphere-style deployments), including region rollout strategy, upgrade and rollback paths, and cutover planning.Storage architecture: Ceph design and operations (RBD/RGW, CRUSH, rebalancing, tiering) to enable capabilities such as live migration and resilient shared storage.Control-plane resilience: highly-available identity and database design, including the trade-offs of running stateful services across regions.Day-2 operations: the runbooks, SLOs, observability, and operational discipline that keep the platform healthy after deployment.Technical leadership: setting the engineering standard for design, documentation, and delivery, and mentoring senior and mid-level engineers toward it.Cross-functional delivery: partnering with networking, operations, and infrastructure teams to resolve dependencies and keep programs moving.Must-have experienceArchitected and operated OpenStack at scale in production — multi-region, hundreds or more of hypervisors — with depth across Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Glance, Keystone, and Placement.Kubernetes-native OpenStack experience: running the OpenStack control plane as Kubernetes workloads (OpenStack-Helm, Atmosphere, or equivalent).Strong Ceph design and operational experience for block and object storage.Led a platform migration or modernization program end to end — sequencing, risk management, cutover, and rollback — not just isolated component work.Bare-metal provisioning and lifecycle tooling (MAAS, Ironic, or similar).GitOps delivery (Argo CD / Flux) and modern observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, or equivalents).A track record of influencing across team and org boundaries to unblock complex dependencies.Strongly preferredSoftware-defined networking depth (OVN, BGP/FRR, driver-level Neutron work).Experience designing highly-available identity across distributed or high-latency links.Hardware reliability and firmware-level failure analysis.Identity and secrets modernization (Okta, Keycloak, Vault, Barbican).Infrastructure-as-code at scale (Ansible, Terraform) and CI/CD for infrastructure.What success looks likeFirst 90 days: fluent in the platform’s architecture; owning a modernization design and shepherding a pilot environment through to a clean handover; a migration plan with named owners and dates.First year: measurable improvement in platform reliability and operability; modern deployment and Day-2 practices adopted by the team; reduced single-points-of-knowledge; the team leveling up around your standard.How we workWe value engineers who diagnose before they conclude, write things down, and finish what they start. Blameless, evidence-based, and collaborative — we expect strong technical opinions held with humility and backed by data.","company":"Linksoft Technologies","rawCompany":"linksoft technologies","city":"Portland","state":"ME","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-09-17T08:08:07.817Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-1244.00","title":"Network and Computer Systems Administrators","slug":"network-and-computer-systems-administrators"}],"industries":[{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Sr. Openstack Engineer","description":"Title: Sr. OpenStack / Sr. Cloud Platform Engineer Location: Remote – India Type: Full-time Experience- 6+yrsAbout the roleWe’re looking for a senior platform architect to lead the design and delivery of our private-cloud infrastructure on Kubernetes-native OpenStack. 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